For the sixteenth time, the Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) is awarding the Young Scientist Award (YSA) for outstanding students and young scientists in the field of water and environmental research. 

We look forward to receiving numerous applications!

We cordially invite all members and interested parties to the ZWU Water Café every first thursday of the month at the Brücke at the Essen Campus!
Exchange, networking and getting to know each other in an informal setting. From now on every first Thursday of the month.

This year´s topic of the 13th Water Research Horizon Conference will be "river links - water connecting climates, landscapes and people".

Jointly organised by the University of Freiburg and the Water Science Alliance.

As part of the first Day of Honor of the Fire Salamander, information about the amphibian species and its threat was provided at an information booth in the Tierpark Bochum. 

Dr. Maximilian Schweinsberg from the ZWU team was on site and informed the visitors about the current state of scientific research on the fire salamander.

In order to be able to produce safer flame retardants in the future, Prof. Dr. Burak Atakan from the Chair of Thermodynamics at UDE is investigating their mode of action together with the German Textile Research Center North-West (DTNW), an affiliated institute of UDE. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the project for the next few years with approximately 612,000 euros.

First came the recovery, then the stagnation of biodiversity in European waters. This was the conclusion reached by an international research team led by Prof. Dr. Peter Haase (Senckenberg/UDE) in a study now published in the journal Nature. They therefore call for additional measures to revive the recovery of biodiversity in inland waters.